Quotes of: Half-past Keyword

Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future.

Joshua Rogers

Anything you like; anything I like... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us

Jean Rhys

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Julian Schnabel

Our past doesn’t define us, rather, it’s the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.

Jocelyn Sanchez

Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your moments!

David Grachek

You gained experience from your past action. Set goals for the future; act now with imagination.

Debasish Mridha

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Edison

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Hank Aaron

This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

Joe Henderson

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

Joyce Carol Oates

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip Zimbardo

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

Robert Harris

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Vladimir Putin

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

Martha Beck

Gideon: Careful, Chief. Dig up the past, all you get is dirty.

Minority Report

Professor X: Mutants, we now find ourselves on the edge of extinction.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Bolivar Trask: There is a new enemy out there: mutants. You need a new weapon for this war.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Erik Lehnsherr: [sees Logan's bone claws] Imagine if they were metal...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

Jeff Ament